Council of Thunder

Council of Thunder is a free-fall into what it takes to embrace this toxified, crumbling, stunning world. Exploring themes of eco-feminism, ecological kinship, heartbreak as initiation, and radical collective love, Toland shows us the ugly, the painful, the hurtful-and demands we love this world, "out of all worlds," anyway. The book's three-part arc moves with quiet intention through pathways of self-discovery and eco-awakening. Through sonic spells and grounded imagery, these poems offer us no neat healing, but a hard-earned turn toward aliveness, in its full color spectrum. A coming-of-age story set in this time of climate chaos and political dysfunction, these poems ask us to sit in council with the more-than-human, and weave ourselves more boldly and interdependently into the web of life.